I remember filming Graham Pitts at the Circle of Stones in September 2000 and getting a very firm look through the lense of the camera. I also attended the play he wrote and directed called ‘Debt of Honour’ in Theatreworks in St Kilda. That was probably 2000 or 2001.
This is Graham Pitts.
Xanana Gusmao and ‘Tour of Duty’ opened the Melbourne Arts Festival that year. In 2001 Graham took ‘Tour of Duty’ to the capital of East Timor Dili. ‘Tour of Duty’ was a play about the deep relationships between Australians and Timorese during world War 2 in East Timor. In particular the relationship of Australian soldiers with their criados.
Graham and Michael Coyne later published a book of photographs of East Timor.